Excerpt from Procedure Before the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Grounds of Proof in Rate Cases The Interstate Commerce Commission, under the act creating it and endowing it with powers and under the decisions of the Supreme Court, is a "tribunal" vested with the power of hearing evidence and determining what are reasonable practices and rates of transportation and what rates and practices are free from unjust discrimination or undue preference. This sentence describes in a word nine-tenths of the Commission's functions, so far as the shipping public is concerned. The Commission has many other duties and powers which directly affect the carriers and which have been heaped upon it from time to time as Congress has seen fit, but the shippers in interstate commerce are chiefly concerned with its fundamental remedial powers above outlined. It is safe to say that nearly all the time of the Commission as a body and of the Commissioners as individual members is taken up with enforcing the first four sections of the law that pertain to the functions above specified. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.